Michael Nelmes steps us through the Soviet space shuttle program.

Some recent spaceflight spectacles offer hints about what you might see if Kosmos 482 happens to fall through the sky above ...

Kosmos 482 was part of the Soviet Union's storied Venera program of Venus exploration. The probe launched toward the second ...

A defunct Soviet probe designed to land on Venus will have an uncontrolled reentry this month and pieces of it may make it to Earth's surface. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and ...

Indeed, this system was not the only component of the Soviet’s advanced military space program. There were systems, such as the Almaz military space stations that were under active development ...

the state corporation that runs the Russian space program. Designed to land on the surface of Venus, Kosmos-482 may have remained intact during its plunge. It splashed down in the Indian Ocean ...

"The Kosmos-482 spacecraft, launched in 1972, ceased to exist, deorbiting and falling into the Indian Ocean," the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos said on the cloud-based social media ...

A few pieces of Kosmos 482 fell to Earth a few weeks after its launch in 1972, although the Soviet space program refused to acknowledge the findings. A Dutch astronomer captured photos of the ...

The mission was an attempt by the Soviet space program to reach Venus, but it failed to gain enough velocity to enter a transfer trajectory toward the scorching-hot planet. A malfunction resulted ...